When the government of Sri Lanka published the  National Red List of threatened plants in 2020, my eyebrows shot up. We’ve ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In a move hailed as a long-overdue conservation victory, Sri Lanka has formally ...

All governments of our country have initiated steps to sending more of its citizens to foreign countries to bring in much ...

The Abilene Zoo is welcoming a new, rare creature to their collection – Vicki the Sloth Bear! Vicki is a 12-year-old female who is coming to Abilene for a ...

The Sri Lankan trade union bureaucracies responded to Trump’s tariffs by assuring the government and big business of their willingness to cooperate.

Sri Lanka, which is famous the world over for ancient, giant Dagobas, has earned notoriety for huge pyramids—albeit of a different kind. It has become a haven for various pyramid scams. Sri Lankans ...

Scientists found a “large”-eyed creature with “slender” fingers near a temple in India and discovered a new species, study said. Photo from A. Sayyed via Sayyed, Das, Amarasinghe, Bhattacharjee and ...

Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump wrote to his Sri Lankan counterpart, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, informing him that the ...

A Mountain for Every Continent. A Flag for Every Summit. He dreamed big. He climbed higher. Now, he returns home a legend.

After 14 years in hiding, when King Valagamba finally returned to reclaim his throne in Anuradhapura around 89 BCE, he paid ...

For over a month, efforts have been under way to save the life of the magnificent tusker Bathiya. Shot by an unidentified ...

A recent media convention hosted by the British Guild of Travel Writers (BGTW) in Sri Lanka has cast a renewed spotlight on ...